Or: Starting Out in the Evening, continued from noon yesterday
Yesterday evening's New York Lottery numbers were 510 and 5256.
For the former, see post 510, Music for Patricias.
For the latter, see Richard Feynman at the Caltech YMCA Lunch Forum on 5/2/56—
"The Relation of Science and Religion."
Some background….
The Aleph
"As is well known, the Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Its use for the strange sphere in my story may not be accidental.
For the Kabbala, the letter stands for the En Soph ,
the pure and boundless godhead; it is also said that it takes
the shape of a man pointing to both heaven and earth…."
— Borges, "The Aleph," quoted in Ayn Sof (January 7th, 2011)
The Y
See "Pythagorean Letter" in this journal.
Edenville
"Hello! Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville. Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one."
"A very short space of time through very short times of space…. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand?"